The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
ONLY RICH MEN WANTED.
sh Washington Officials Who Live
Beyond their Incomes.

Express.
N-secretary Manning's friends here have
rived the most encouraging reports from
since he took up the duties of the Yves
"a National bank in New York. lie has
gied in strength every day, and instead of
arehension, his family and his intinates
fl themselves very greatly cheered by the
aarent good that his work does him. He
jand congenial scenes. For it is one of
most curious of results of political office
Iding that it not infrequently depresses
al vexeS and annoys such men as Manning,
vile it elevates and makes consequential
adpompously dignified some little fellows
no possess not little of the political talent
Manning. The ex-Secretary made very
any men ofliceholders. Some of these have
zen admirable officers, who were able to
ear the burdens and annoyances without
1sing one wink Of sleep. But TO Mr. Man
ing himself it was always great burden,
great and sleep-destroying responsibility,
md in many aspects great bore But there
another feature of his escape from public
office that especially pleases him. Mr.. Man
ing had been paying some s., 900 or $4,000
a year out of his own pocket for the honor
and responsibility there were in the office of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
How do you make that outs will be asked
His salary was 900 a year, and he ought
to have been able to live on that. But he
wasn't nor has any Secretary of the Treas
ury, who met the social requirements that
that office entails, been able to live on the
salary if he had a family. Mr.. Manning
gave up place as president of an Albany
bank and a salary of 5000 to accept the
treasury. He also was obliged to resign his
ctive duties as president of the AlbanyArgus
ompany, and it is understood, gave up the
slary, too, which was s., 900 more He was
ten receiving $4,000 in yearly salaries
Wen he reluctantly accepted the treasury
potfolio. The net cost then to him was
5000. But he maintained an establishment
i'll Washington that cost not far from clean
thosand month, and his other expenses,
peronal, political - he was always
lieral giver for political purposes-were
not ar from $1,000 year more. 1t cost
him therefore, not far from 900 year
whilrhe was in Washington That meant
goin, to his private income for $1,000 or
$500 a year Though Mr.. Manning is
comfrtably of in fortune, his income from
his pDpeIty is not believed to be as much
as thi sum. Now see the difference. He
is President of great banking corporation.
He weeks four or five hours day, and
works without worry. He receives $4,000
year, and it doesn't cost him more than
from Investment; he puts by half his salary;
he is making money instead of losing it, and
he will be someS30 600 better off at the end
of Cleveland's term than he would have
been had he staid in the Treasury.
OFFICES FOR THE RICH ONLY.
Mr.. Manning's experience suggests that
of many others, some of which have been
described to me bg the men who had them.
Only few days a.o newly elected mem
Der of Congress sad to me:
II have given NJ permanent place, with
a salary semewht larger than that of a
member of Congress. l presume if don't
tread on too manypf my constituents toes
can be renominatGl, and my district is sure
to be carried by my party. That will give
me at least four yeas in Congress and $780,,
600. Can save hal, of that2'
told him he couli, but that it would re-
quire self-denial, almost entire abstention
from social enjoyment, and satisfaction
with humble quarters and plain food As
rule none but the nch or very poor ought
to accept Office of any kind i'll Washington.
The rich can spend money; the very poor
are not expected TODD so, but the men of
moderate means, snail incomes, who have
been accustomed tb some of the luxuries of
life, are very fortunate if they make their
salaries and their expenses meet.
Senator McCreey, who some years ago
represented Kentucky in Congress, was re-
puted to have saved some 100000 out of
$4,000 that he received in salaries; but he
lived in the utmost frugality. There was a
cheap hotel in Georgetown, whose rates
were 81 week for board and lodging, and
here McCreery lived. He would walk from
this place to the capitol and back every day,
thus saving 81 or so week in car fare, and
his personal expenses were insignificant,
None of his salary went to hackmen, to
florists, to Wormley or Chamberlain; he
never played poker and never went to the
theatre. and when he quit Congress he had
enough to live on for the rest of his days.
A Representative from one of the New
England States has served twelve years, and
is belived TO have saved $40, 900 of the $780,
900 salary he has received. But his hauntS
were simple; he boarded at second-rate
hotel; his family remained at home and he
spent his evenings playing whist when at
leisure, and had no more expensive habit
than the taking of single toddy just at
bedtime.
A Missouri member was obliged to declinea
denomination some four years ago because
he found that in spite of all he could do he
was running behind 50, 900 or $4,000 each
year, though he practised law in his vaca-
tions
Said he to me when l asked him why he
had declined to come back, especially when
ne seIneu JUST ABOUT TO win nlSn eSUeeIl III
Congress-:
" can't stand it to see my wife walking
the sidewalks and BIS wife riding in car
riage, and she can't either can't stand it
to go with her on foot to reception and see
Blank and his wife step out of carriage,
and it costs me more than my salary every
year because | can't. / am going home to
make my fortune. When get rich enough
to own my own carriage, perhaps l may
come back
WHAT HE COULDN'T STAND.
Gen. Collins, the brilliant Irish-American
member from Boston, told me that he trem
Died to think what it was costing him to
serve in Congress. He did not dare face the
inquire. His actual expenses exceeded his
income, and his splendid law practice in
Boston was threatened. He determined not
70 run again, and it went abroad that he had
quarreled with President Cleveland because
OF some question Of patronage. This was
not the reason. He declined because he
could not afford to go to Congress.
IL cost William II. Chandler some $40, 900
more than he got back in salary TO be Sec
rotary of the Navy though he probably
looked upon the expenditure as good in
vestment, as the office gave him prestige
without which he could not have been
elected Senator. But he once said he would
nave been many dollars better Off had he
been confirmed for the office of Solicitor
General by the Senate in 1891. That office
PAID nearly as much as Cabinet place
docs, and the social requirements arc very